Though best known for his Westerns, John Wayne made three 12-chapter cliffhanger serials for Mascot Pictures in the early 1930s in which he played pilots—aviators being the headline heroes of the age—and performed many of his own stunts. In The Shadow of the Eagle (1932), the Duke plays a barnstorming pilot who unmasks a disgruntled inventor who skywrites his threats before killing his victims. Wayne, cast as an airline pilot, brings a railroad saboteur to justice in The Hurricane Express (1932). The Three Musketeers (1933), sort of a Beau Geste knock-off, finds a flying Duke helping French legionnaires foil an Arab uprising led by a masked Yakima Canutt, the king of Hollywood stuntmen.